someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
a person who is in a position to give you special assistance;"he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"
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中英词源
middleman 中间人，经销商
比喻用法。
middleman (n.)
in the trading sense, 1795, from middle + man. From mid-15c. as the name of some type of workman in wire-making. From 1741 as "one who takes a middle course."
词态变化
复数 middlemen;
权威造句
1. Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman .
直接从生产厂家购买，绕过中间商。
来自《权威词典》
2. Why don"t they cut out the middleman and let us do it ourselves?
他们为什么不甩开中间商，让我们自己干呢？
来自柯林斯例句
3. There was no middleman in this transaction.
这笔交易没有中间人。
来自辞典例句
4. He acted as a middleman in discussions between the two companies.
他在两公司的谈判中作中间人.
来自辞典例句
5. The middleman does not have goods himself.
中间商自己没有货物.
来自辞典例句
近反义词
intermediary middleman [经] 中间人
retailing middleman [经] 零售中间商...
wholesaling middleman [经] 批发中间商...
transportation middleman 运输中间人
merchant middleman 中间商
agent middleman 居间商
general middleman 普通中间商
functional middleman 职能中间商
相似短语
agent middleman 居间商，居间商
middleman landlord 二房东
intermediary middleman 【经】 中间人
general middleman 普通中间商指以自己的名义从事买卖，取得商品的所有权，再将商品转卖，并承担买卖的一切损益及营业上一切风险的中间商，如批发商、零售商等。参见：functional middleman.
